Academic Eligibility
Panhellenic
Recruitment
In order to participate in the Formal Recruitment process, the eight Panhellenic sororities
require all students to have completed 12 credit hours at Baylor and have acquired a 2.75
cumulative GPA.
The university grade requirement to participate in student
organizations is a 2.67 cumulative GPA and 12 credit hours at Baylor. While it is at the
discretion of each individual sorority to consider a woman below a 2.75 cumulative GPA,
the majority of our sororities WILL NOT take a woman that does not meet the 2.75
cumulative GPA. In addition, the sororities will not round the grades to a 2.75 – it must
be a 2.75 or above. Please do not count on a group making an exception to the 2.75 grade
requirement. History has shown that the majority of the sororities will not make
exceptions to the grade requirement.
The university does not round up to a 2.67 cumulative GPA. If you have a 2.66 it will
stand at a 2.66 and will not rounded to a 2.67. In addition, if you drop below 12 Baylor
hours, you will not be able to participate in the recruitment process. If you receive an
incomplete in a class and it brings you below 12 Baylor hours, you will not be able to
participate in recruitment.
It is your responsibility to check your grades at the end of the fall semester on Bear Web.
Start checking within 24 hours of taking your exams and keep checking until all grades
have been posted. If you feel a grade change is needed, you must contact your professor
no later than December 18, 2015. Changing grades takes time so do not
procrastinate! You cannot request a grade change from a professor unless you can
justify the grade change. DO NOT ask a professor to change your grade just so you
can go through Panhellenic recruitment. There has to be a reason to change the
grade and you must be able to justify the grade change. Once you receive a grade
change, you must report the grade change to the Associate Director of Student Activities
for Greek Life by Friday, December 18, 2015. The university will be closed from
December 22, 2015 until January 4, 2016. If a grade change is not completed before
the university closes for Christmas, then the sororities will make their selections based on
the grade reports they will receive during the Christmas break. It is the responsibility of
the student to ensure the grade change has been completed. The Associate Director of
Student Activities for Greek Life will not check grades of a potential member unless
notified that a grade change has been requested and processed through academic records.
If you do not notify the Associate Director about a grade change by the date specified
above, then the original grades will determine eligibility. No exceptions.
Junior Status
Juniors are counted separately from freshmen and sophomores for Panhellenic
recruitment. Juniors have a separate quota from the freshmen and sophomores. While
most of the sororities take juniors, they are not required to take them.
According to the university, anyone that has completed 60 hours at the end of the fall
semester is considered a junior. This same policy applies to Panhellenic Recruitment.
Any woman that has completed 60 hours before January recruitment will be considered a
junior for the purpose of recruitment. This includes Baylor hours, transfer hours and
advance placement hours. If you transfer hours to the university, those hours will be
reflected on the grade report that is received for recruitment eligibility at the end of the
fall semester. Juniors also have to meet the same grade requirements of a 2.75
cumulative GPA required by the sororities.
Transfer Students
Students transferring to Baylor in January must contact the Associate Director of Student
Activities for Greek Life to inform her of their plans to participate in Panhellenic
recruitment. It is the responsibility of the student to have their transfer transcript
forwarded to Baylor University no later than December 18, 2015. A transfer transcript
must reflect 24 transferable hours and a 3.0 cumulative grade point average on all course
work in order to be eligible to participate in Panhellenic recruitment.
A student is classified as a transfer if they have attended a college or university
during a fall or spring semester after high school graduation. This means, a student
must have taken no less than 24 hours at an institution of higher education after
high school graduation. Dual credit and AP courses taken in high school will not
count as transfer credit and therefore do not count those hours into your transfer
hours.
If the only college work completed is dual credit, or advanced placement credit, they
are not considered a transfer student. They must have been enrolled and completed
24 hours as a student in an institution of higher education outside of high school.
For example, a freshman transferring to Baylor in January 2015 from another
college or university must have been enrolled and completed 24 hours and receive a
3.0 cumulative GPA on all college courses taken at the previous institution(s).